November 20, 2004

• My guess is that it's someone's idea of a joke -- some Target employee who is involved in the site maintenance or such. Yowsah.
• Did a search on the keyword from the main Target page -- 7 videos, 5 DVDs, 15 music matches, etc. Freaky stuff...
• I love the loop of See description for information. [click] See features for information.
• Holy shit ... Target sells Anal Cunt?
• And, under additional information • Return policy • Pricing policy • ASIN: B0002KPIBO
• So, is this a product, or a service?
• Ace find!
• Best of all...it's eligible for free shipping!
• A search on that ASIN number turned this Which lead to "Pacific Media Entert", searching on that turns up all kinds of weird amazon cross-linking. Including this amazon page. Which let's us know Starring: Jospeh Ph.D Kramer (Fire in the valley -- awesome!) Joseph Kramer Phd also shows up on some tantric sex lecture series sites Which, finally brings us here (Not Safe For Work) where you can see the DVD cover. The internet is fun.
• And there -- at malphigian's link -- we see six more products, the last of which is "Evolutionary Masturbation", again by that legendary Kramer fella. Who do they put on the cover but some blind guy, hands out, trying not to walk into walls in front of him.
• Addendum: -- at malphigian's BOTTOM link --
• Someone do a screen capture, stat.
• 4-8 weeks delivery??? I need one NOW dammit!
• I'd do a screen capture but since MoFi doesn't permit inline images, what would be the point? Who can resist a title like URANUS- Self Anal Massage? I like the quote from William Reich: Those who are pscyhically ill need but one thing: complete and repeated gential gratification You know, I haven't been feeling psychically all that well lately,
• Got a copy of the page. Will PDF and send to any who want it. The hubby works for Target, I wonder if the employee discound applies. If it's a product (something sold) it is, if it's a service (provided by a Target employee) it's not.
• rocket88, you owe me an espresso and a keyboard and a monitor... and I don't think it's the first time...
• $35.96??? Highway robbery I say! I live in West Hollywood and this same service is offered for free in many bars and bath houses.
• No matter where I go, no matter what I click, I cannot escape the anuses.
• I'm entertained already, and I haven't spent a dime. Thanks Target!
• Hey Plano - You wanna credit BoingBoing?
• You almost got their posting word - for - word. "Target.com selling "anal massage" WTF? Link to a Target ad which, as one BB reader says, is "offering Anal Massage, at 10% off, and free delivery. 4-8 week delivery lead time. This will probably disappear pretty quick." -BoingBoing
• samlam - when people get a link from a site, they can credit it or not - it's up to them. But many times these links are picked up from email or randomly, or even from the site that boingboing got it from. Remember that not everyone reads the same blogs as everyone else - for instance, I think I must be the only person around reading Fenland Drainage filter, which has daily reports of peat levels from all over the East Anglian Fens. But if when I post a link from that blog, I'll be sure to credit it.
• BTW what is the general trend of peat levels in the fens? I'm serious
• samlam - this was posted at 05:34 AM UTC on November 20. The BoingBoing post was at 12:24 AM on November 20, in whatever timezone BB operates in. Now I'm pretty sure BB is in an American timezone, which puts it between 5 and 8 hours behind UTC. So even if it's running on Eastern Standard Time (and bear in mind its origins are on the west coast - I'm fairly sure it's actually on Pacific Standard), that only gives Plano 10 minutes from the time it was posted on BB to post it to MoFi... If it's any more than five hours behind, then Plano posted before Xeni. In other words, it might not have been from BoingBoing. Maybe it was. But, you know, perhaps it'd be polite to be sure of your facts before you start having a go at Plano.
• Hey, look! Here's a new post on BoingBoing about it! And guess what... they're eight hours behind. Oh, and it points out several things already mentioned, hours ago, in this thread. In other news, trend of peat levels in the fens.
• Yeah, I read Plano's post hours before it was on BoingBoing.
• samlam -- I'd have credited BoingBoing if I had found it in BoingBoing. I found it in the personal blog of someone who posts about the environment and marketing. His comment was something like 'I'm surprised Target would do this [link].' I had Googled something entirely different, like [respiratory protection], which took me to the blog. Finding Target was pure serendipity. It's not that I don't enjoy BoingBoing, but I look at that site only once a week or so. By now, there are probably 30 links to that Target page.
• Fenland peat levels are going down - they will be gone soon. But sweet links, fb! Maps, ooohhh, maps. are you taking the piss on me? Aw, who cares, they are great links :) I'm checking out that Great Fen Project, maybe they'll have money for my research!
• Could an old Cantabrigian possibly be taking the piss when talking about the fens? Pshaw! Furthermore, with my Irish heritage, I have a natural sympathy for peat. No, there's no piss-taking here. I love me some fenland. Also, maps rock. kamus asked the question, and it piqued my interest. And when my interest is piqued, maps often follow... :-)
• If only the anal massage Halliburton is giving Treasury were so cheap.
• *applause*
• For anybody currently in the vicinty of a copyright library, more fenny goodness will surely be found in The Changing Fenland, H C Darby, Cambridge University Press, 1983. That is all.
• I don't WANT to be exposed to Fenland.
• wendell wins.
• Can I get this gift wrapped? That's all I really want to know.
• Depressing about the fens. Humanity can tend to really blow
• This discussion reminds me that I have this book: How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? in storage somewhere. It's pretty infamous.
• Wow, kmellis managed to unify both the anal massage and the fen drainage aspects of this thread with his comment above. ) ) )
• BTW kmellis, since you own it: malarkey or effective way?
• I vote for malarkey, because I like the word malarkey. Malarkey! Malarkey! Malarkey Mark! MalarkeyFilter! Whopper with cheese, extra Malarkey! I DO want to be exposed to Malarkey!
• I only bought it for the comedy and, er, I'm-so-hip-I-found-something-that's-really-obscure-but-cool factor. So, I haven't tried it.
• Suuuuure, we believe you kmellis *looks around innocently*
• The Whopper is no longer the ultimate in Malarkey. The new King is Hardee's Monster Thickburger, at 1420 calories (Online Video available). Obviously Hardee's and Target are in collusion. First you get Constipation Consummation and then you follow it with an Anal Massage. Btw, a Google Weblog search for [target "anal massage"] has 206 hits and lists 31 blogs, not including sites like MonkeyFilter.
• Should work, sounds like any other one-pointed meditation.
• o mi gahd, you guys kill me with yer malarkey loads quick and right on target too bad i don't do amazon, or my holiday shopping would be done
• or would that be targeted quick loads?
• I'm disappointed no one has mentioned gaping yet. massage that gape! (is it cosmic coincidence that 'massage' is an anagram for 'ass game'?)
• Not to sully this thread with any sense of seriousness, but BUTT Magazine, a fantastic magazine for homosexuals, featured a fascinating article about Canadian artist AA Bronson and his application of anal massage in its Summer 2003 issue which you can read here. And, a word of caution. BUTT is an unapologetically funny, unapologetically gay magazine, which is to say, IT PWNS! However, some content may be NSFW.
• There's a UK comedian called Neil Mullarkey ...